E.P Women Food processing centre for Dodowa

THE Women in Fellowship of the Evangelical Presbyterian (EP) Church, Ghana is to establish a food processing centre at Dodowa in the Greater Accra Region to empower women to be economically self-reliant.
Facilities at the centre would include a gym intended to take care of the health needs of the women, a guidance and counselling department, financial department to facilitate the provision of credit facilities to the women and a library.
The Co-ordinator of the Women in Fellowship of the EP Church, Rev. Mrs N. Adepena, made this known when she addressed the annual convention of the West Volta Presbytery (WVP) of the EP Church at the Trade Fair in Accra.
Rev. Mrs Adepena said the establishment of the centre was to empower the women in order to create a better world for themselves and their families, hence the theme for the convention: "Empowering women for a better future".
She said when the centre became operational, it would make loans available to the women who had the potential to minimise, if not eradicate, poverty in the country.
Rev. Mrs Adepena stressed that the church recognised the immense contribution of women in building the church and the country, hence the need to empower them to make them socially, spiritually and economically viable.
The Minister for Women and Children’s Affairs, Madam Akua Sena Dansua, acknowledged the importance of the project and pledged the support of her ministry and that of the government to facilitate the early completion of the centre.
Madam Dansua stated that in the interest of national development and economic empowerment of women, partnership between the church and government was necessary to attain that vision.
The minister urged the leadership of the church not to neglect the physical and economic empowerment of women in the church as it was a possible way of eradicating many of the social vices in the society.
She tasked the women to be responsible towards the upbringing of their children in order to secure a brighter future for them.
Some local foods prepared by the women were on display at the convention.